Monthly Archives: September 2025

The Situation at Columbia XXXIII

Posted on September 21, 2025 by woit

The fall semester is now under way at Columbia, and in many ways things are normal: enrollments are as usual or higher, foreign students have mostly gotten visas and are on campus. There are some new things though which are … Continue reading →

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Two Number Theory Items (and Woody Allen)

Posted on September 20, 2025 by woit

James Douglas Boyd has recently spent a lot of time interacting with Mochizuki and others at RIMS working in anabelian geometry. Material from interviews he conducted are available here (Mochizuki on IUT) and here (on anabelian geometry at RIMS). He … Continue reading →

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Epistemic Collapse at the WSJ

Posted on September 11, 2025 by woit

For a long time now fundamental theoretical physics has been suffering not just from a slowdown in progress, but from a sort of intellectual collapse (I wrote about this here a while back in the context of “epistemic collapse”: the … Continue reading →

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